Picts: History and Heritage 

Amazing glad you got to see them. Oneday I will too can't wait. I will feel the same way. I get that feeling too when im among ancient things from the past.

The Scots were still Scots and original inhabitants.

I'm skeptical if that's true, more likely we're seeing survivorship bias because these dwellings are better preserved than usual in Europe because of their remoteness and building with stone rather than wood as was usual.

@@robokill387 better preserved? in the wet Scottish highlands?

@@SungazerDNB yes. They built their houses of stone there, whereas in most of Europe they probably built their houses out of wood, which rots. Also, in most of Europe they had higher populations and a higher percentage of their land was agriculturally valuable- which would lead to more of it being tillef over repeatedly, destroying stone age sites. In mountainous regions and remote islands with low population density that's less likely. Also, it completely possible for very wet conditions to lead to high preservation- look up bog bodies. Highly acidic soil, low oxygen and low temperature can preserve organic material for millenia - in fact "bog butter" is regularly found in Britain and Ireland that has been buried for 2000 years and is still edible.

@@robokill387 they used stone on this side of the channel also. (Dutchman here) I understand your thinking though.

@@SungazerDNB yes, but they probably used proportionally more wood in the Netherlands compared to Scotland - the areas of Scotland where these things are typically found are nearly treeless.

The picts were pretty much eradicated. There is hardly any Pictish ancestry in modern Scottish people.

@@MrPassiontea I am sure you're one of those that also believes Neaderthals were Eradicated by Homo-Sapiens...Despite evidence showing otherwise.

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For one thing, they were taller. 😊

Do you think culture resides in art? You have been brainwashed by elite institutions, without even knowing it.

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@Terry Rudy Instablaster =)

never existed

Hi from Shetland x

Archeology would argue that sir. But nice try lieing about what u stole. We all know now.

@@Insolation1 what never existed ?

@@jimorr5580 The idea that Scotland was all that unified; sometimes it was but most of the time it was just different regional and cultural different groups that united to fight against the English, well even that's not correct. They fought against some dispute between some English and Scottish monarchy. You were told which side you were fighting against, there was nothing democratic in it, you did as you were told. From Glasgow through to Edinburgh and all the way down to almost Lincoln used to be a united culture/country, they all spoke Cumbric. Glasgow and Edinburgh like many of the place names in the Central belt and the lowlands are, Cumbric not Gaelic. Glasgow is Cumbric 'Glas Gau' which means green hollow, Edinburgh is also Cumbric 'Din Eidyn' meaning Hill Fort. The myth that Scotland had some ancient unified culture is bogus, it's war lords and monarchy just used ordinary people and marched them behind a flag and made them fight other people who were similarly controlled.

Does anyone know the song playing at the start when the flag waves

Don't miss the standalone Bran Mak Morn tales from REH, especially "Worms of the Earth". While Conan is REH's most famous creation, King Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, Steve Costigan, and Breckinridge Elkins were all great characters/stories.

Sounds like you have !

Bravo to this reference!!

I honestly cant think of any other examples that captivate me as pict art does. D.M.

Jack Duffy, There are seven clans of Siol Alpin, they are :- MacNab, MacGregor, MacKinnon, MacQuarrie, Grant, MacAulay and MacFie. These seven clans are directly descended from the Pictish King Alpin and through his son King Kenneth I, the first king to unite the Picts and the Scots. I fail to understand why you regard yourself as a part of Siol Alpin, the name Duffy is of Irish origin, originally spelled O Dubhthaigh in Irish Gaelic. Duffy's are descended from one of the Heremon kings of Ireland, namely Cahir Mon of Leinster. As a MacGregor, I can claim descent from Siol Alpin, our clan motto is 'S Rioghal Mo Dhream (Royal is My Race). Rob Roy MacGregor coined the phrase "Black Mail", extorting money from livestock owners on the promise that neither he nor his clansmen would rustle the paying owners herds. Cattle and Sheep rustling was a way of survival for some Highland clansmen. Ownership of land and livestock were held by the law of the sword.

David MacGregor, Thank you David for your input, Back in the 1970s the Clan Chief Mac-Fee, lived here in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He has past on now, Chief Earl Duglas, Mac-Fee, Insisted that, Coffy, Cathy, Hathy, Duffy, And others, Were Clane Mac-Fee, He is still regarded heer as, Na-dooniawosl, Learned Man, So let me call out, Coom-Ra Bass-Alpin, Remember the death of Mac-Alpine.

The Pictus, From Isiaths whence they came.

@@jackduffy1817 Thank you for your reply Jack, sorry about my late reply. It's possible that the names you mentioned above were Septs of Clan MacFee, or MacFie. A Sept is a famIly who are not directly related to a Clan through it's bloodline, but when they show loyalty to a Clan they are treated as though they are a fully fledged member of the Clan and are given protection by the Clan.

Perhaps 150 000 ? given that it was only about a 1/2 million by the start of the medieval period ?

Bertha Yellowfinch are you referring to princess Scoti,whom legend suggests the Scots are derived from?

Huh , Egyptian royalty ? hahahahaha

Scotland was named for Scotia, a red headed Egyptian princess, descendant of Tutankhamun, who fled Egypt to the area now known as Scotland with the Scythian prince she had married. This theory is further supported by DNA tests that demonstrated 70% of the male population throught the UK had genetic links to Tutankhamun while conversely less than 1% of the male population of Egypt was found to have the same.

I am I know

Ken M if you have inherited a big pair o balls there you go by the way I'm in Aberdeen

my Ancestors are picts too

My Maternal Grandfather's family came from Aberdeenshire, just where is lost to time.

You must proudly yell, that you're a pict!!!

you're saying picts might have had ugro finnish background?

According to the Romans, the picts initially lived on the banks of the Loire River. From there, they traveled to the British Isles to look for a vacancy for the Goths and Celts. The Pikes had twenty Viking ships. Approximately 60% of the Gallia place names written by Caesar were of Finno-Ugric origin.@@frogman4700

@@frogman4700 Gene study: The peoples of India are of similar origin to Estonians and finns.Mohenjo Daro and Harappa culture.What was destroyed by a major catastrophe (nuclear war, etc.). We are Aryans :-). Descendants of the Elves.

Ullapool is "wool pool," from the Norse, or possibly from the woman's name, Ulla + pool. The other two names could be Norse as well, though I need to hear them pronounced to be certain.

They originally came from Siberia then traveled to finland then to Scandinavia then to Scotland

Alba Thank you it is great to get positive feedback.

Any pictorial references please?

Yeah the 80s were great

Most Scots have the Russian Steppe Gene (from the picts no other part of the British isles has this gene ) so the Scythia legend has a element of truth the Scythians language was written in hieroglyphs just like on the Pictish standing stones www.scotsman.com/news/politics/genetics-show-many-scots-are-descended-russian-nomads-1463717

my Dads last name comes from some weird irish name, but his ancestors were picts

Several thousand

Thats just what i was thinking.

Listening to Pink Floyd !

Ummagumma!

The pictsish tribes would have been subsumed by the invading Norsemen, the Scots were invading from Ireland,

I did too, +55 years ago. But there has been a great deal more research since then and much less credence given to the opinions (hardly research) of the 19th c historians and antiquarians that we used to believe. There are lots of resources online about the archeological finds (eg much larger settlements than previously thought, evidence of trade with far distant places), linguistic research (the modern consensus is that Pictish was a branch of “Common Brittonic” the root language of most pre Roman Britons) and of course DNA research which was unheard of back then (the unique Pictish DNA marker has been isolated from bones found in archeological digs - and in modern Scotland is still most commonly found in the area of former Pictland). It’s all part of a much greater interest in and research of the early history of what is now Scotland, which turns out to be a lot less like the “misty Celtic twilight” of 19th c romanticism and a lot more like “Game of Thrones” (minus the dragons) with 5 quite different cultural and language groups vying for dominance over a 500 year period. Worth looking into it, it’s fascinating.

+cyndi aides there were no copy right laws in those days

Your right to question. The picts originally came from Siberia then traveled to Finland then to Scandinavia then to Scotland

The Picts were clearly Britons as shown in the video from there placenames like aberdeen

They were the genetically inbred Neolithic indigenous from the Orkneys.

To refute this point, Hadrian was a consolidator. Previous campaigns under Agricola and Cerialis in Northern Britain lacked that edge to maintain power due to the 'stop-go' events prompted by the death of emperors. The Roman empire needed to realise that Northern Britain, although it would expand the linear boundaries of the empire, was not economically viable to conquer since there was little means to do so. Hadrian used the wall to focus on Southern Britain and harvesting economically-enhancing resources; something Northern Britain did not offer to the South's extent. Hadrian also used the wall as a customs point, taxing the travellers through a Roman currency, cattle and crops, and wives/children for slavery. It is not that Hadrian feared the people, because the empire had overcome far worst, but it was because of a new vision of how to govern the empire that caused the wall to arise.

+DaviG123 Yeah there's that, and, .... the northerners were a bloody frickin handful ehhh... .

Christopher Stewart Considering the wall split the Brigantes tribe in half, according to Ptolemy’s map, then its doltish to suggest that one half of the Brigantes tribe was peaceful and the other was violent towards the Romans. Sure, the Celts of Northern Britain were a fearsome lot, many Roman scholars express this explicitly, but they were nothing compared to the might of Rome. Total asymmetrical warfare at time.

Read a little history FFS!

Dear Davi, I appreciate your rhetoric, but no one ever would need to build a wall in the North just because they want to harvest the Southern part. If mighty Romans weren’t scared they would just make their business without building the wall. Also, following your theory, the Chinese wall was built for fun

White people are Jews?

Do your own research.

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Nope, you do not. That surname means your family's males are actually gay.

Surnames are a relatively modern phenomenon. Your ancestor came from a place called Pitkeathly (Perthshire) that has a Pictish name.

Most Scots have the Russian Steppe Gene (from the picts no other part of the British isles has this gene ) so the Scythia legend has a element of truth the Scythians language was written in hieroglyphs just like on the Pictish standing stones www.scotsman.com/news/politics/genetics-show-many-scots-are-descended-russian-nomads-1463717 and the name "Pict" is Gaelic/Gàidhlig it means painted

Hi David, The most recent research on the early symbols from Dunnicaer near Stonehaven by Professor Gordon Noble and the University of Aberdeen archaeologists puts the dating of the stones earlier than had previously been thought. Chapter seven of his book on the Picts: The King in the North (2019) describes their findings. Noble writes as an archaeologist and does not try to explain what individual symbols might mean. I don't think there is any consensus on that subject yet ! On the web, the Pictish Arts Society is a great place to explore some of the issues and the University of Aberdeen's Northern Picts Project might also give you some information on the earliest stones. Alan Short

Yaver Historians seem to agree that pre-Norse Shetland was culturally "Pictish" . Symbol stones and other aspects of material culture confirm this. Politically, Shetland is thought to have been within the sphere of influence of the northern Pictish state of Fortriu, centred on the Moray Firth. The Viking incursions into Shetland in the 8th century changed all of this and also replaced the language of the indigenous inhabitants with Norse. If I understand the current thinking ,there are no examples of the pre-Norse language in Shetland place names .This makes it impossible to identify the language spoken in Shetland prior to the Scandinavian colonisation. Most writers have assumed that the pre-Norse inhabitants of Shetland would have spoken Pictish which is as you say is related to the Brittonic language but in a recent article ,Dr Alex Woolf raised the possibility that they might have been Gaelic speakers who had moved to Shetland from Western Scotland! At the moment it's impossible to make definitive statements given the lack of evidence.

Hi Brian, remember AHS.

Co as a tha thu air Barraigh?

@Talorc MacAllan Ah interesting Scots to Ireland not Irish to Scotland

It doesn't matter. Full stop. You folks have to stop spitting into cups to be told what you are. People are products of their culture, not the assortment of weak regional DNA markers of the distant past. There is more genetic difference between two identical penguins than between any two humans. We're too new a species and culture changes FAR more rapidly than our genes do.

@@BlueBaron3339 Or you can stop telling people what to do. If they want to spit in a cup and find out whatever about their dna that's their business.

@@MsJess2804 Telling people to stop embracing false concepts of genes as identity is more than their personal business, I'm afraid ☹️ I honestly wish it were truly harmless. I do.

I think so, because that area around Scone, was a Royal and ecclesiastical centre.

This tape doesn't go back to the origins, doesn't go back far enough. He just starts with, they were the indigenous people of Scotland. But they weren't.

@@JanetCaterina Well it seems you're fishing for a reply so... elaborate... you made a "finite" statement. So elaborate... What's your info and where did you get it from?

@@JanetCaterina He did state it was believed the Picts were of Scythian origin from East of the Black Sea. The Scythian people were a fierce, warlike people.

thats because they live on a coast,,, Liverpool is different than Manchester, NewYork to Dallas.. coastal people develop an accent different than the rest of us.. now the main thing.......we are all Indo Europeans from the Steppelands of Euroasia. DNA proves it.. yes even the Scottish.

Im from Angus & you all taste like chicken.

They fuck a lot of sheep up there so maybe that's the cause

@@highlandninja9522 Na Na man ,that’s the Welsh your thinking off ! The Welsh shepherd couldn’t stop singing the old seekers song when his girlfriend left him....I’ll never find another ewe !